http://www.tonycode.com/blog Nothing important.. Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:20:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On Saturday, I spent the day at BarCampDC2.    Like last year there were plenty of great sessions.  I really wanted to discuss Amazon's EC2 as I think it is where most small companies should be moving their sites and I see huge business opportunities in this space.   As ... http://www.tonycode.com/blog/archives/80 A few months ago I was asked to do a Technology Due Diligence of SocialThing.   My 1st reaction was why do we need another aggregator?    We have BuddyFeed and several technologies that are proven to scale.  People always snicker when AOL and technology are mentioned in the same sentence but ... http://www.tonycode.com/blog/archives/79 Two weeks ago I went to Omaha to attend the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting. The meeting was great and Omaha was fun to explore, but 2 businesses left a mark on the entire trip. 1) As I checked out of my hotel at 4AM I noticed the charges were not ... http://www.tonycode.com/blog/archives/77 Handles are the key to having applications update on the profile page without a user taking action. Some notes on how to do this on Facebook are here. Since Bebo has implemented most of the Facebook API this should be easy but I think some things (like ... http://www.tonycode.com/blog/archives/76 Last week I spent some time learning how to build Bebo applications. Their API is just like the Facebook API but it is not complete and the documentation has some holes in it. If you haven't built a Facebook application the entire process can seem awkward. The Bebo ... http://www.tonycode.com/blog/archives/75 I always hated printing confirmation pages from web sites. Printing a piece of paper that'll end up in the recycle bin in a few weeks is just silly. There are also times that I'm not connected to a printer and I really need to save a copy ... http://www.tonycode.com/blog/archives/74 Over the past few years my Blockbuster subscription fee has increased and the number of in store exhanges allowed has decreased.   At the same time my queue is running on empty.   At 1st there were tons of movies I wanted to see but now I'm caught up and I don't ... http://www.tonycode.com/blog/archives/73 After I blogged about building a sitemap for Rails I contacted Mike Clark and asked him if he thought it would make a good Recipe for his upcoming book, Advanced Rails Recipes. He thought it was a good fit and it is currently in the Beta version of the ... http://www.tonycode.com/blog/archives/72 I hate traffic lights. I hate them even more when they have me stopped unnecessarily. I'm always thinking about the gas being wasted as cars are forced to stop and then idle. Sure, electric cars will recapture energy when you are breaking but there is still energy ... http://www.tonycode.com/blog/archives/71 Electric clothes dryers are not an efficient way to heat your home, but if you're using it anyway, you might as well use that heat to warm and humidify your home in the winter. Not only is your dryer heating air and sending it outside, it is constantly pulling ... http://www.tonycode.com/blog/archives/70